Reflecting on Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, & The State" (pt. 3)
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Breht O'Shea
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🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Alyson and Breht finish their series on Friedrich Engels' text "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and The State", and reflect on the text as a whole. Together, they wrestle with questions, like: What is family abolition? How do rich people buy extended, communal family? What happens to the family and romantic relationships under communism? Should people ever be treated like commodities? How does the title of the text reflect historical and dialectical materialism? and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Red Menace. |
| 0:19.2 | So on today's episode, Allison and I are finishing up our three episode series on Frederick |
| 0:24.6 | Engels is famous text, the origin of the family, private property and the state and the way |
| 0:30.8 | we're going to tackle this one is that we're going to briefly, especially in comparison |
| 0:35.8 | to other episodes in the past, kind of go over some of the main points in the last chapter. |
| 0:41.5 | We're not going to hyper summarize everything because in a lot of ways, it's like using |
| 0:46.0 | other societies to re-intrench the point being made and then in the last chapter, it's really |
| 0:50.7 | a summation of his entire argument and that's going to lead well into a reflection on the text |
| 0:56.2 | as a whole. So we're going to do a little bit of covering some of the main points of the last |
| 1:00.7 | few chapters. Then we're going to focus on that last chapter and the text as a whole and then |
| 1:06.0 | we're going to just see where the conversation takes us. But this will be our last episode on |
| 1:10.8 | Engels's origin of the family, private property and the state. And as we've said in the previous |
| 1:15.4 | episode, at least for the time being, at least for the next few months, we're going to shift a |
| 1:19.9 | little bit, focus more on Allison and I discussing current events and things that are happening politically, |
| 1:25.9 | geopolitically, as opposed to reading and teaching texts. So we're just going to take a break. It's not |
| 1:31.8 | going to be a permanent thing necessarily. A lot of it on my end is just being incredibly busy |
| 1:37.8 | with a bunch of kids and a bunch of stuff and family life and all this other stuff. So it's kind |
| 1:42.8 | of hard for me to find the time at this moment, especially trying to go back to school to read |
| 1:47.9 | these texts in a way that would be in depth enough to help explain it to others. So for the time being, |
| 1:53.2 | but I think that's a good change of pace. I think people get a lot out of those episodes and when |
| 1:58.1 | we cover current events, and I think our theoretical episodes are a great backdrop to our real world |
| 2:04.0 | analysis of ongoing real-time problems. So that sort of relationship back and forth between like |
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